Best Hosptial Podcasts (2024)

They guard us from the land, and yet are dependent on constancy. The people who kept the light lit were often either stalwart and commtted often at the cost of their physical or mental health and all those on the ships going by had no idea the drama that was behind the light that kept them safe. Join as we head to the ocean on the East and West coa…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE4 EP12 - Time Slips and Past Places 1:01:11

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Imagine you find the perfect hotel where you enjoy a quaint (but odd) meal and spend the night in your comfortable (but very rustic) hotel room. "What a delightful theme hotel", you think, and then you get up in the morning, pay your bill, which seems insanely cheap and go on your way. Two weeks later you go down the same road to stay there again a…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE4 EP11- Summer Holiday: Haunted Theme Parks 58:57

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Theme parks; fun rides, great snacks, scary ghosts? These stories are only a few that are out there about most of the theme parks we love to go to. Even an abandoned one in Japan. Grab your backpack and water bottle as go for a day of fun and scary stories and hit up all the best Haunted Theme Parks.…

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Shift Happens Book Launch 1:26:58

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Guest, Monte Silva & Scot Turner Learn more about Monte Silva Restaurant Executive Coaching www.montesilvacoaching.comBy Monte Silva, Restaurant Coach

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE4 EP10 Summer Holiday: Ghosts of National Parks 57:05

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In our ongoing series for Summer Holiday themes, we talking about National Parks! They aren't all forests and valleys, sometimes they're caves, canyons and old homes or historic sites, but most have something haunting going on. Get in the car with us as we head down the road to talk about one of my favourite locations to visit anytime of the year, …

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE4 EP9 Summer Holiday: Ghosts of Summer Camp 57:13

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Have you ever gone to Summer Camp? I went as staff, but never as participant. However many of our listenrs have and we have some amazing ghost stories for you from Summer Camps all over the US and Canada! Join us on Ghosts 'N Bears for this special episode in our Summer Holiday Series of Ghosts of Summer Camps and the last story in the bunch is ama…

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The industrial tragedy at Bhopal through the LivingBodiesObjects' digital storytelling 30:41

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The 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India, is recognised as the world’s worst industrial disaster. The Wellcome-funded LivingBodiesObjects project has been working with the Bhopal Medical Appeal (referred to as BMA), a charity funding free healthcare for disaster survivors and water-affected communities. In this podcast episode, LivingBo…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE4 EP8- Summer Holiday: Those Haunted Hotels 59:00

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As our summer theme progresses, we thought you'd find such comfort in hearing stories about haunted hotels. Jason and I have certainly experienced our share of them. Theser stories come from all over the world to find themselves in your ears. I have a favourite one, which you will get to hear, and Jason and I discover and agree upon one of our futu…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE4 EP7- School's Out Ghosts! 56:22

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School - most of us HAVE to go there and some people never seem to leave. With school winding down for the year we though it would be fun to do a whole series of "Summer Vacation" episodes and this is the first one! This collection of stories has plenty of ghosts and encounters with ghosts in the many many haunted schools around the world. Enjoy th…

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Ghosts 'N Bears SE4 EP6 - Haunted Hosptials 54:26

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If you have ever read any of my books you know that I truly beleive hospitals are like airports. They are there for arrivals and departures. And like some people miss their flights, some energy sometimes, gets left behind. Join us on this episode of Ghosts 'N Bears as we talk about some haunted hopsitals, seniors homes and any other facility where …

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Humanising Care for Older People Living with Dementia - Teun Toebes in conversation with Khalid Ali 36:42

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Teun Toebes, humanitarian activist, in conversation with Khalid Ali. In this podcast, Teun talks about his book 'The Housemates' (The Housemates by Teun Toebes, Laura Vroomen | Waterstones) and documentary film 'Human Forever' (Human Forever The Film (human-forever.com) describing his quest to understand better the experience of older people living…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE4 EP5 Ghosts of the (International) Forests 1:00:49

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If you do down to the woods today, you're in for a big surprise.....and by surprise we mean terrifying! Join us on this episode of Ghosts 'N Bears as we share stories from around the world and the one thing they have in common? The forest, the woods, the trees, the wilderness. You don't mess with nature, especially not when it's full of the unexpla…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE4 EP4- Ghostly Pets and Animals 49:56

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If you've ever had a pet who has gone on before, you know that sometimes, if you're lucky, they come back for a visit. Not all visits are from your pet however, and some of the see stories of ghostly animals are a little surprising. As someone who has had a lot of pets, I know that there are times, usually just after they pass, that they have come …

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Making Modern Maternity 21:50

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Introducing their forthcoming special issue of Medical Humanities, Drs. Whitney Wood, Heather Love, Jerika Sanderson, and Karen Weingarten discuss the political significance of “making” our “modern maternity” with Editor-in-Chief Brandy Schillace. Whitney Wood is Canada Research Chair in the Historical Dimensions of Women’s Health at Vancouver Isla…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE4 EP3- The Third Person II 1:01:23

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Not very often we repeat this quickly, but we so enjoyed doing that Third person episode, we just couldn't wait to do another one! As T.S. Eliot said in his poem The Waste Land: Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking be…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE4 EP2- The Ghost in My House - Saanichton 1:11:03

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Sometimes we rent a house and get a lot more than we bargained for. Join us as we talk to friends and patrons Kyle and Charlotte as they share the ongoing events in their rented home, that have gotten so bad, they don't watch, listen or talk about anything paranormal while inside the house, because things get worse for a few days. That's intense! Y…

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Black and Brown in Bioethics: A new Medical Humanities Research Forum 25:24

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In this podcast, our Editor-in-chief Brandy Schillace sits down with Matimba Swana and Kumeri Bandara of Black and Brown in Bioethics to discuss how they started, why it is important to build community when challenging disparities in academia, and how Medical Humanities and Black and Brown in Bioethics are joining forces to transform the academic p…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE4 EP1- The Third Person Syndrome 1:04:32

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Here's where it all began, I read this caption on the attached picture and thought, wait what? I had heard of this, even experienced it but I had no idea what a wide spread phenomenon it had become and so I knew we needed to talk about it. Are they angels? Spirits? Ghosts? Our own mind manifesting soothing comforts? We really hope you enjoy it and …

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Scenario Planning, Healthcare, and the Humanities 24:55

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In this podcast, Brandy Schillace (EIC) and Cristina Hanganu-Bresch (Blog and Associate Editor) talk to Matt Finch and Matthew Molineux about how scenario planning can help inform decisions about healthcare and the role of narrative in building scenarios that teach and humanize the health professions. Read more: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humani…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE3 EP10- The Annual Victorian Christmas Episode 1:28:28

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It's that time of year again my little Christmas angels! We jump back in to the time when ghost stories were a "Christmas Only" kind of thing. The nights were dark, the houses cold and full of shadows and at a rare time of year when the family was together and not working for just one day of the year, there was nothing better than to get the magazi…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE3 EP9- The Ghosts of Coeur d' Alene 43:23

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The City of Coeur d'Alene isn't just hard to spell, it's also beautiful, and very haunted. After the military base was started there, the silver rush soon followed along with the rail road and all the rough, edge of the Wild West with them. The spirits of soldier's, prisoners and even playful children join us on our trip around town. and now you c…

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1 Traumatic + 1 Redemptive 1:29:28

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Real birth stories from real mommas for real mommas. Listen in as Becca shares her 36 hour induction as a first-time mom that turned into a Cesarean Birth, then her incredibly redemptive VBAC for her second birth. She was not interested in another traumatic birth, so she got educated, hired a doula, switched hospitals, and advocated for the things …

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Unmedicated Birth of Breech Baby 1:12:18

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Danielle shares her INCREDIBLE birth story of her breech baby! It included a lot of hard work, just like all deliveries, but it was full of strength, peace, and beauty. Are you ready to share your birth story? (ck.page)By Emily Betancur

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Hospital Birth for a First Time Mom 40:11

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www.magnoliabirthLBK.com/podcast If you need help making the right birth decisions for you, send me a message and I would love to listen and chat through your options! If you would like to share your story and help other mommas, please submit your request here - https://magnoliabirthlbk.ck.page/magnoliabirthstoriesguest…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE3 EP8- The Ghosts That Haunt Us 58:14

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Fear. We've all felt it. Sometimes it's paranormal, sometimes it's not but we all know the emotion. On this very special Halloween episode of Ghosts 'N Bears we talk about our top three most terrifying experiences and what occurred that made us so terrified. THE episode we had planned on doing was a whole OTHER episode but that was taken from us be…

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Magnolia Birth Stories - Emily Errington - 1 Momma, 2 Hosptial Birth Stories 1:00:34

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magnoliabirthLBK.com/podcast Emily Errington shares 2 hospital birth stories. The first was an induction of labor with a traumatic delivery, the second was less than 8 hours long and started with her water breaking in a BIG GUSH! As a birth doula today, she shares what she loved and what she wishes she had done differently.…

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Poetry, Disability, and the Power of Medical Humanities with Kimberly Campanello 26:27

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Making connections through poetry, disability, and medical humanities. Brandy Schillace, Medical Humanities' Editor-in-Chief, interviews Kimberly Campanello, Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Leeds University, UK. Read the related blog including the transcription of this podcast: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2023/10/26/on-poetr…

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Magnolia Birth Stories - Emily's Mom - Anne Banks - Induction for "Big Baby" 25:20

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www.magnoliabirthlbk.com/podcast Real birth stories from real moms for real moms.By Emily Betancur

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE3 EP7- The Ghosts of Wallace, Idaho 56:05

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In our wanderings we stumbled across Wallace, Idaho. Charming, antique, historic and haunted. Wallace was the product of the silver mines in the valley and it has not let go of its past. With most of the orginal buildings intact including the hotels and brothels, Wallace will never disspaoint ghost hunters or people who simply enjoy history. The te…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE3 EP6- The Ghosts of Helena Montana 58:37

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Haunted Helena is one of the most charming haunted locations we've ever explored. The historic, stunning homes and of course the State Capital buildings make this town one you don't want to miss. Join us as we talk with our guest April about her time living there, the ghostly girl from the graveyard that April had a winter coat for, Reeders alley, …

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Virtual Reality and Disability: Supportive learning through VR 29:35

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Stuart Murray, Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film, University of Leeds; Wellcome funded LivingBodiesObjects project David Tabron, Blueberry Academy speak to Brandy Schillace about LivingBodiesObjects, the Blueberry Academy, and how Virtual Reality can support those with learning differences. Read the blog with the transcript of this epi…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE3 EP5- The Ghosts of 108 Mile House 1:00:47

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From a murdering hostess on the Gold Rush trail to bodies dumped in a lake, 108 Mile has it all! Including a ton of Ghosts. Join us as we head in to 108 Mile House historic site and experience the energy for ourselves and learn way more about the ghosts who still haunt and perhaps wait with murderous intent on the old gold rush trail of the Caribou…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE3 EP4- The Ghosts of Corless House 59:07

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The old house sits quietly on main street, almost invisible for some strange reason and yet once you know it's there you're compelled to go in! Inside you'll find a lovely shop owner, beautiful, gems, stones, incencse and other metaphysical gear and......ghosts. Find out what's happening in Corliss Hosue and what's been happening in OUR house since…

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Bittersweet Potatoes: Noura Kevorkian, documentary film maker, reflects on the plight, and resilience of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon 36:58

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In this podcast, Dr Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent, interviews Noura Kevorkian, a Syrian/ Lebanese documentary film-maker. Noura Kevorkian discusses the personal and professional journey of her award-winning documentary 'Batata', its impact on the film's protagonists, and how the film advocates for the rights of refugees around the world.…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE3 EP3- The Ghosts of Maxine's Brothel 54:07

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Started life as a Beauty School with boarding, but if that was truly the way things started, its not how they ended up. Rum running, prostitution, Mob activity and murder all ended up being absorbed by the walls. So what now? Join us on this episode of Ghosts 'N Bears for not only the story of Maxine's but also a few stories that we know that relat…

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Featuring the Nocturnist’s SHAME IN MEDICINE: The Lost Forest 28:15

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Medical Humanities, editor-in-chief Brandy Schillace speaks to Emily Silverman, MD, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF)creator of The Nocturnist podcast, and Luna Dolezal, Associate Professor in Philosophy and Medical Humanities based in the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health. They both published a 10-part podcast…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE3 EP2- The Ghosts of The Museums 1:00:53

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Grab your flashlights, cause we're heading in to some gloomy places. The Vancouver Art Gallery (Former Vancouver Courts Building) and the Vancouver Police Museum (The Former Coroners Court Building) are hotbeds for paranormal activity. Having had eye witnesses in one of those buildings and a full on paranormal investigation in the other, both museu…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE3 EP1 - The Ghosts of The Grouse Mountain Trail 55:46

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"If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a big surprise......" It may not be a GOOD surprise, but it's highly likely that something out of the ordinary will happen once you lock your front door and head out in to nature. Don't drop your guard, nature is often trying to do us in, and in this episode we hear the story of a place that is rea…

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Immersive and Interactive: Accessibility Theatre and LivingBodiesObjects 23:53

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Editor's in Chief of Medical Humanities, Brandy Schillace, interviews Amelia DeFalco, University of Leeds and Steve Byrne Director/Chief exec of the Interplay Theatre about the Interplay Theatre's work with disabled students and the role of immersive experience for the LivingBodiedObjects project.Related blog including the transcription of the podc…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE2 EP25 - The Ghosts of Christmas Past 1:10:55

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Our second annual Victorian Ghost Story Christmas Extravaganza is here! As an added fun side to this episode we filmed it, and you can see the whole thing on our Youtube channel. We dressed up and everything! Join us for stories of ghosts long ago, cursed trees, vanishing villages and wrong made right, give aways and the sheer joy of spending time …

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From Voiceless to a Voice Representing the Deaf Community and British Sign Language (BSL) 41:01

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Dr Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent, interviews British documentary filmmaker, Edward Lovelace. They discuss his film ‘’Name me Lawand’’, a rapturous portrait of a deaf Kurdish boy’s emotional journey towards discovering how to express himself. A love letter to the power of communication and community. Edward describes how he bonded with La…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE2 EP24 - The Ghosts of Las Vegas 1:00:09

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If you have ever been to Las Vegas, you might think that with all the lights, crowds, people, shows and buffets, there would be no room for ghosts! Great news! We found some! We talk to the friend of the show Patrick who calls Las Vegas home, as he shared not only his favourite Las Vegas stories but also a few of his own. These stories will make yo…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE2 EP23 - My Haunted House: Strawberry Vale 1:07:27

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It sounds pretty, Strawberry Vale here in Victoria BC - and it is, with lovely views of the water and homes perched up on rocks and ridges - but it contains one of the most haunted houses I've ever heard about. Join us as we are invited to chat with the homeowners, Brad and Deanna as they share with us the twenty years of ghost stories they've expe…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE2 EP22 - The Angry Ghost of the Golf Course 47:04

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When you think golf courses you probably don't think ghosts, but if you were in fact murdered on one....well all of a sudden it makes more sense. Join us on this episode of Ghosts 'N Bears as we chat with Anna who ran in to the ghost first hand, twice and we share the sad history of the woman who haunts the Victoria Golf Course where Bob Hope and B…

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Finding the Right Words, a book on Grief, Dementia, and Literature 23:26

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The moving story of an English professor studying neurology in order to understand and come to terms with her father's death from Alzheimer's. Brandy Schillace (Medical Humanities' Editor-in-Chief) interviews Cindy Weinstein, Vice Provost and Professor of English at California Institute of Technology.Related blog including the transcription of the …

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE2 EP21 - The Ghosts of Ghosts 'N Bears 1:12:24

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Join us for Community stories sent in by YOU the community as well as a very special and very personal story that Jason and I had just last month. It was shocking, heartbreaking and healing in a profound way that we just did not see coming. You are not going to want to miss this episode that has everything in it! Lot's of Ghost stories form all ove…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE2 EP20 - The Ghosts of The Stanley Hotel 1:04:12

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The Stanley Hotel may be the most famous Mountain hotel in the world. Thanks to it's natural beauty, it's elegance and it's terrifying reputation, both real and enhanced. The famous setting and source material for Stephen Kings terrifying novel The Shining it has it's very own ghost story that are a lot more real than any novel. Join us and our gue…

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Ghosts 'N Bears - SE2 EP19 - The Ghosts of Heritage Park 56:09

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A modern day living museum is not REALLY where you expect to find multiple houses of ghosts, but that's where we are! Heritage Park in Calgary has more than one ghost story tied to it and certainly more than one haunted place. Join us as we head there on this episode. Listen to the soothing train go by, discover Jason's love of Cinnamon Bread and h…

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